TV SERIES · 2019
The Dictators Rulebook
DocumentaryDrama54 min per episode
Six 20th-century dictators are examined one by one as the series traces how figures from Benito Mussolini to Saddam Hussein seized power, kept their grip, and finally lost it. Each profile asks the same central questions: what tactics made these regimes possible, what forces resisted them, and what led to their collapse. Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Jean H. Lee are among the contributors framing these histories as case studies in brutality and political power, with the focus on the machinery of authoritarian rule rather than a single national story.
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